AMFM x Bronzeville Winery
AMFM is an (art)ist organization for the people. We support and feature emerging and established artists through our website, which includes content with local artists and creatives from all over the globe, and through our curated events, exhibitions, partnerships, and activations. Through programming, AMFM combines the arts to cultivate community, diversity, inclusivity, intergenerational engagement and of course, good vibes with a purpose, mission, or cause. Learn more about at http://amfm.life
Curator
Ciera Alyse McKissick
An independent writer, curator, cultural producer, and the founder of AMFM, an organization whose mission is to promote emerging artists. She created AMFM, originally a web magazine, as an independent study project in 2009 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied Journalism and Mass Communications. Her work since then often involves collaboration through supporting Black and brown artists, local arts organizations, and seeks to stimulate community engagement that's driven by inclusivity, accessibility, intention, and care. She is also the Public Programs Manager at the Hyde Park Art Center, and on the board of Equity Arts (a project of Heaven Gallery).
bARBER
bARBER, a newly selected cohort member of the 2024-25 Ignite Fund, has an impressive track record in the arts. He has participated in prominent events such as the MdW Art Fair, The Other Art Fair (2023 and 2024), EXPO CHICAGO (2023), the Chicago Artists Coalition's 2023-24 HATCH program, and residencies across the country and globe. He is a resident of the School of Art Institute’s 2024 Tower A-I-R program. His work has garnered recognition throughout the Midwest, with notable collectors like Dan Gilbert's Family of Companies in Detroit acquiring his pieces in 2023. Among his accolades are the 2020 Biennial Artist Research Fellowship at Sam Fox Island Press, University of Washington in St. Louis, and a feature in New American Paintings, Issue #150.
Taylor Allmon
Taylor Allmon (b. 2001) is a recent graduate of School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s BFA program with focus in painting and art history and an alumni of the Yale Norfolk School of Art (2023). Her work reflects a longstanding interest in history and cultural anthropology while simultaneously offering implicit reflections on the evolution of anti-Black violence and racism over time. Through equal consideration of Afrofuturism, Afropessimism, ancestor veneration, and activation of the archive, she posits the afterlife as a site liberation while pondering notions of belonging and community across the diaspora.
Alexandra Antoine
Alexandra Antoine is an interdisciplinary visual artist and cultural apprentice based in Chicago, IL. Her work acknowledges the influences of her Haitian culture and interest in portraiture, food, traveling, farming and the deep wisdom involved in traditional artistic practices of the Afrikan diaspora. She honors her ancestors always and is currently growing food in several community gardens on the West side of Chicago!
She received an undergraduate degree from a fancy art school and exhibited her work in many places but collaborating with folks throughout the Afrikan diaspora is her life's work.
Learn more about Alexandria at: www.alexandraantoine.com
Artworks are available for sale, please email amfmmag@gmail.com